Scott,
My guess is that what you are missing is that with Windows, choosing a value from a drop down list does not complete the selection. You must either click onto another cell or press the [Enter] key to make the choice permanent. If this is not done, the selection and CHIRP will display the unchanged value at the next refresh. This is not necessary when using CHRIP running on Linux or macOS.
For example, if Power was set to High and you click on Low in the list and then click the [Refresh] button without first clicking on another cell or pressing the [Enter] key, the value for Power (High) will be displayed because the choice (Low) was never completed. However, if you select Low and then either clicking onto another cell or press the [Enter] key before clicking on the [Refresh] button, the new choice will have been fully selected and remain.
I would imagine that you were going down each memory row one-by-one changing the Skip setting to "S". By the nature of doing this, after choosing "S" from the drop down list you clicked on the cell below (which made the previous choice permanent) to begin working on the next memory row. This process was continued by choosing "S" and once again clicking the cell in the next row (again making the previous choice permanent). Then once you got to the last row, you chose the "S" but did not click onto another cell (to the left or above or both) or press the [Enter] key leaving the last choice not permanently set. So upon the next refresh (uploading to a radio, downloading from a radio, saving a file, loading a file, clicking the [Refresh] button, etc.), the not fully selected cell is returned back to its original (because it was not fully changed by the user) value.
One way to guarantee that a choice is always made permanent is to use the Memory Properties editor. To access the Memory Properties editor you can either click the [Properties] button at the top of the Spreadsheet Style Memory Editor or you can right-click the memory row that you want to edit and choose "Properties" from the list that appears. Once you click the [OK] button, any changes that were made in the Memory Properties editor are complete.
The Memory Properties editor also allows you to change common settings of multiple memory rows at the same time. For example, to set the Skip setting of all the "NOAA" memory rows to "S" at the same time you would do the following.
- Click memory row 117 to highlight it
- Shift-click memory row 127 to highlight memory rows 117-127
- Click the [Properties] button (alternatively right-click one of the highlighted memory rows and choose "Properties")
- Tick the box to the left of Skip to enable editing of this setting
- Change the value of Skip to "S"
- Click the [OK] button to make the change permanent on all selected memory rows.
Jim KC9HI
